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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Jane's Acceptance Speech

Emma Thompson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5prYhXQtCk
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Sunday, August 25, 2013

'I am not romantic, you know'

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/documentary-podcast-ver-brief-encounter-emily-sheeran-patrick-duignan-courts-marraige.html

Dublin 1913. A man who has come into money has marriage on his mind…and ends up in court when he changes his mind. Great listening! Hang on for the song at the end.
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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Colonel Brandon - stay home tonight!

I need this like I need a hole in my head.
I have sent Brandon on a walk down to the area of Fleet Prison, which is where he might have found Eliza…I do not know why I did this. He is in a great agitation today; a lot has happened in his life; and none of it is good. This is where his feet take him…where are you going, Brandon? You belong in the drawing room! The Club! Your lodgings in St. James Street! It is a cold night, I beg you – stay in – but no, you would be gone, and now I have to research this very different part of Town…
Underworld, street lighting, watchemen, constables? Pickpockets…housing – did this part of London survive the Great Fire of 1666? Dogs, pigs, Babies crying; the sound of Bow Bells...

The Fleet River – now a sewer, was flowing then. And by the sounds of it, a lot of it was on the streets -


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